WE appreciate that the Arc Light Centre must do a lot of beneficial work for those in need of help, but we feel that Shipton Street school site is not a suitable one for such a centre to be developed.

We are very concerned that the influx of people who need help from such a centre, plus those who feed from their dependencies, will have such a detrimental effect on this whole area creating fear, anguish and practical problems for all the local residents.

Surely there must be an alternative, more suitable site for this project in a non-residential area where any resulting problems can be monitored and contained and dealt with?

Margaret and Terry Potts,

Newborough Street, York.

Updated: 10:37 Monday, July 25, 2005